In parallel of the buddies I modeled the revolver and hyperion gunblades from Final Fantasy 8. The hyperion one was quite hard to do because there are not so many references around. Rendered in Cycles and modeled in Blender. Background is done in Gimp ( except for feathers rendered in Blender).

Great work with the gunblades Have you thought about making one or more of Rinoa's weapons? I'd especially like to see Shooting Star, but it's okay if you don't have any plans to make it or any of her other weapon. But if you want to make it and happen to need a reference for it, let me know and I'll gladly send it to you. c: